Orinoco_plx woes on 2.6.13

[Nathan Mahon <lkml.org@vaevictus.net>]

I use a Belkin F5D6020 wifi card, (version one), and a belkin f5d6000 pci adapter for it.  A while ago, it was working flawlessly, though I
didn't use it that much after the wife's laptop died.
I've rolled through some kernel upgrades... and it appears my wifi does not work anymore.
here's the technical stuff:

I was still using 2.4 when it was working for sure, but I can't verify that it wasn't ever working on 2.6.
under 2.6.11, i noticed the problem, I couldn't bring the interface up.
dmesg produced similar results (to 2.6.13 i have now), but iirc, the
iwconfig didn't make it look like the card was working at all.  I rolled
to 2.6.13, and things improved only slightly.

Now, with 2.6.13, I get a successful modprobe orinoco_plx:


>> auron root # dmesg
>> orinoco_plx 0.15rc2 (Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, David Gibson 
>> <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Daniel Barlow <dan@telent.net>)
>> PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:0a.0
>> orinoco_plx: Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PLX device at 0000:00:0a.0 irq:9, 
>> io addr:0x2c00
>> orinoco_plx: CIS: 01:03:00:00:FF:17:04:67:5A:08:FF:1D:05:01:67:5A:
>> eth2: Hardware identity 8002:0000:0001:0000
>> eth2: Station identity  001f:0003:0000:0008
>> eth2: Firmware determined as Intersil 0.8.3
>> eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
>> eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
>> eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key
>> eth2: MAC address 00:30:BD:63:21:11
>> eth2: Station name "Prism  I"
>> eth2: ready
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and at this point, iwconfig looks like the card is behaving somewhat:


>> auron root # iwconfig eth2
>> eth2      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:""  Nickname:"Prism  I"
>>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 
>> 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>           Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity:1/3
>>           Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>>           Encryption key:off
>>           Power Management:off
>>           Link Quality=0/92  Signal level=134/153  Noise level=134/153
>>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
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dmesg hasn't changed at this point.
however, ifconfig breaks it:
auron root # ifconfig eth2 10.5.6.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
10.5.6.255


>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
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and dmesg now says this:


>> hermes @ 00012c00: Card removed while waiting for command 0x0f38 
>> completion.
>> eth2: Error -19 configuring card
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and if i retry the ifconfig, i get a different error and a different
dmesg result:


>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Connection timed out
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>> eth2: Error -110 setting MAC address
>> eth2: Error -110 configuring card
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Just to state the implied, I'm *not* removing the card, and rmmod'ing the orinico_plx driver and re-modprobing it will produce consistantly the same errors.

Thanks,
Nathan Mahon


System: old amd k6-2 333mhz box with 256mb ram
Distro: gentoo
Kernel config: http://www.vaevictus.net/2.6.13_config.txt
First Post: so flame me if necessary. :D